Dept. Beverage

Articles on non alcoholic beverage.

  1. Media & Marketing

Building an Adult Beverage Challenger Brand with Flying Embers’ Ben Galvin

The CPGGUYS are joined in this episode by Ben Galvin, VP of Sales, National Accounts at Flying Embers, a hand-crafted, alcohol beverage brand based in Ventura, California that develops great-tasting botanical brews with functional benefits.  Follow Ben Galvin on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-galvin-a62aa35/Follow Flying Embers on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flying-embers/Follow Flying Embers online at:https://www.flyingembers.com/  Ben  answers these […]
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  1. Channel: Restaurants

Restaurants Get Ready As Customers Are on Their Way

  It looks as if this is going to be one of the best holiday seasons for the restaurant sector, and that is simply good news according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Yes, consumers are choosing restaurants this holiday season, according to a new National Restaurant Association survey showing two-thirds (63 […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Google’s Gemini Marketing Trick

Google really didn’t have to exaggerate. When the company introduced Gemini this week — its stunning new AI model that beat OpenAI on multiple benchmarks and understands both text and images — it delivered a product that lived up to months of hype. Yet, as the company showed it to the world, it embellished. In […]
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  1. Channel: Restaurants

McDonald’s To Open New Banner, CosMc’s, This Week

CNBC reports that McDonald’s “will open the first location of its new spinoff brand CosMc’s this week in Bolingbrook, Illinois … With a menu that includes old favorites such as Egg McMuffins and M&M McFlurries, and new items such as Churro Frappes and pretzel bites, McDonald’s is positioning CosMc’s as a fast, convenient way to […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

The 8 biggest party trends for 2024

Picture this: You’re invited to an event hosted by your male friends in their late twenties. It’s not a birthday party or engagement, or even New Years’. No – it’s a glitter-filled Eurovision party. Passing revelers dressed as ABBA and Conchita Wurst, you sip on non-alcoholic beer and cheers to good times. The winner’s announced, […]
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  1. Department: Beverage

Turning up the ‘sweet heat’ in 2024 beverage trends

The beverage consultancy Flavorman sees fruity flavor profiles blended with spiciness or, “sweet heat” fusions, gaining popularity among consumers in the year ahead. Flavors in such applications as a mango habanero pressed juice or a spicy margarita are seen gaining traction.
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  1. Shopper & Customer

What Kinds of Shopping Experiences Will Shape the Future of Stores? DSI

“When we talk about omnichannel native, what we try to think about is a seamless path for the consumer. “ — Stewart Samuel, Director of Retail Futures, IGD The pandemic fundamentally changed how we shop, with many people becoming accustomed to online and omnichannel shopping. Rather than eradicate shoppers’ interest in physical stores, though, this […]
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  1. Department: Food

Add Another Product To The List Of Items Affected By Climate Change

We’ve had stories recently about how the availability and even the quality of a wide variety of products – including apples, beer, wine, olive oil and truffles – are being affected by climate change. Now we can add ketchup to the list,. The Wall Street journal writes that “plant breeders at Bayer are testing whether […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Target Q3 2023 Earnings Recap

Target reported its Q3 2023 financial results on November 15th. For the second consecutive quarter, Target reported negative comparable sales, experiencing a top-line decline of 4.9% compared to Q3 2022. Persistent economic challenges have forced the Guest to be more discerning in their spending. Factors such as inflation, high interest rates, and the resumption of […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Confer With announced as Overall Winner at 2023 RTIH retail technology innovation awards event

Confer With, a 1:2:1 video commerce platform built for retail and e-commerce firms seeking to scale personal shopping, emerged victorious this week as the Overall Winner at the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards. After a rigorous judging process and amidst strong competition across various categories, Confer With received praise not only for its individual contributions but […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

’Tis the season for shopping and romcoms: RTIH runs back the week’s coolest retail technology plays

RTIH Editor, Scott Thompson, brings you his top ‘future of retail’ systems launches and deployments from the past week, including Amazon, Pinterest, Aldi, Walmart, HMV, New Look, TrusTrace, One Water, Polytag, BERSHKA, and 3DLOOK. Amazon Amazon has opened a Second Chance Store in London, giving festive shoppers the chance to buy quality returned products in-person, […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Optimizing your shopper marketing strategy with consumer insights

The best marketing in the world won’t move the needle if potential customers shy away at the last moment. One way to avoid this is shopper marketing, a group of tried and true techniques designed to make the last mile of the purchase journey so effortless that potential customers become actual customers. In this blog […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Instacart and Wegmans to bring alcohol delivery to New Jersey, US

Instacart unlocks alcohol delivery in partnership with Wegmans. Credit: Instacart/PRNewswire. Grocery technology company Instacart has launched an alcohol delivery service for the first time in New Jersey, US. The service was launched in partnership with Wegmans Food Markets and all independently owned Wegmans wine, liquor and beer locations. Customers above the age of 21 can […]
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  1. Agencies & Vendors

RangeMe Sourcing Campaign is Sweet (and Salty) Success for The Panza

One of the benefits of being a RangeMe Starter or Premium subscriber is that you can participate in retailer sourcing campaigns, increasing your chances of getting your products discovered. This is just what Gianna Malatrasi, Co-Founder & CEO of The Panza did. The brand was one of 12 selected by Madeleine Yastrow, Owner of Maddie’s […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Today in Retail Highlights: UK Supermarkets

In this new blog series, Mintel reviews the latest retailer marketing and innovations, including new store openings, online developments, new concept or category launches. For this month’s highlight, our retail experts weigh in on three exciting developments in UK supermarkets. Tesco teams up with March Muses in new partnership This is a really positive move […]
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  1. Department: Beverage

For Dorothy Lane Market, The Secret Sauce Is Family

There’s a lovely little story in the Dayton Business Journal about Dorothy Lane Market, which the site has named its 2023 Family Business of the Year.  CEO Norman Mayne describes the company’s approach this way:  “We’re gonna try more stuff than other companies.  We’re going to probably fail more often because when we hear something, […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Meal and Menu Pricing Matters

  How much are you going to charge your customer next year?  Charge to much and you get your customer go somewhere else. Technology may help you determine who much to charge for any one item but at the end of the it is the total bill with tip that will stick in the mind of […]
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  1. Department: Food

Can Restaurants Gain Ground as Grocery Prices Hit Three Month Highs

  Restaurants have been stubbing their toes as they raise prices to the point that consumers stopped buying the items they liked and started exploring new points of fresh food distribution according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Did you know that grocery store prices were up slightly in the […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Shopper Decision Trees and Shelf Layout – Not as simple as you think!

I recently conducted a poll on LinkedIn asking how best to organize products on a shelf. The results were interesting, with the vast majority of respondents suggesting that the merchandising layout should follow the shopper decision tree. And at one level, that makes sense. But there are some significant issues with this approach. Shopper Decision […]
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  1. Channel: Convenience

7-Eleven Relevance is a New Holiday Branded Merchandise Line

If success leaves clues and it does, 7-Eleven leaves more success clues than most retailers.  According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® 7-Eleven excels at timely relevant messaging that is customer focused. So get this, in an ongoing effort to focus on customer relevance they introduced seasonal collections to its online merchandise shop, 7-Eleven […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Featuring Metacask, Evri, and Confer With: RTIH’s biggest retail technology articles on LinkedIn right now

We’re big fans of LinkedIn and are busy building an amazing community of retail tech enthusiasts on the social media platform. These are the articles that are currently on their radars, including Tesco, B&M, TPP Retail, SeeChange Technologies, Coalescent Mobile Robotics, German Doner Kebab, and the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards. B&M rolls out TPP Retail […]
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  1. Department: Beverage

Wine Insiders Taps the Power of Gifting to Attract New Customers

At a time when customer acquisition costs are going through the roof, DTC wine brand Wine Insiders has seen a 151% increase in net-new customer acquisition in a single quarter through its partnership with gifting platform Nift Networks. Wine Insiders, which was recently acquired by Full Glass Wine Co., began working with Nift to find […]
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  1. Department & Category

Canned Seafood Has Its Moment

The Associated Press reports that “the country’s canned seafood industry is moving well beyond tuna sandwiches, a pandemic-era trend that began with Americans in lockdown demanding more of their cupboard staples … U.S. canned seafood industry sales have grown from $2.3 billion in 2018 to more than $2.7 billion so far this year, according to […]
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  1. Channel: Restaurants

White Castle Selling Relevance

  If you were ever wondering what brand relevance looked like after over a hundred Yes, (102) years of messaging looked like just keep reading.  White Castle after over 102 years has brand electricity once again this year.  How can that be?  Simple branded gift giving!  According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA […]
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  1. Department: Beverage

Intent Signals

One of the mythical holy grails of marketing is to be able to deliver the right message to the right person at the right time.  Easier said than done. Despite all the focus on customer journeys, we’re still operating in the dark on what customers are actually looking for, much of the time.   Even […]
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NRF Retracts Claim that Organized Retail Crime Accounted for ‘Nearly Half’ of Retail Shrink

The National Retail Federation (NRF) has updated a report that had attributed “nearly half” of 2021’s $94.5 billion in retail shrink to organized retail crime, saying the data point was part of two-year-old testimony to a U.S. Senate committee by Ben Dugan, former President of the Organized Retail Crime Resource Center. The NRF report was […]
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